Unparalleled MIDI Hardware Support...

Midi Quest supports over 700 of the most popular MIDI
hardware and instruments from over 50 different manufacturers including Korg,
Roland, Yamaha, Kurzweil,
Alesis, Waldorf, Kawai,
Akai, and E-mu..

You can store,
organize, and edit banks and the individual patches, combinations, multis,
performances, drums settings, and other SysEx data loaded from your
MIDI hardware. Midi Quest is a true multi-instrument editor/librarian
designed from the ground up to effectively support multiple MIDI ports,
multiple manufacturers, and multiple MIDI devices - including multiples of the same hardware.

Midi Quest "talks" to each MIDI device individually so
you can simultaneously send SysEx dumps to as many as 250 different
instruments and still edit another instrument - all at the same time.
Try doing that with any other editor/librarian...

More Options for Your MIDI Hardware...

Midi Quest is not a panel editor. Midi Quest is a
professional, integrated
system capable of fully managing, editing, and organizing the simplest
to the most
complex workstation class MIDI devices and hardware synthesizers such as Korg's
flagship workstation, the Kronos.

Midi Quest natively reads and writes industry standard .syx and .mid
files so that you can easily take advantage of SysEx data downloaded
from the internet or received from a friend.

For Sound Diver users, Midi Quest Pro can import over 500 different types of SysEx directly from
Sound Diver library files making it much easier to upgrade - when you
decide to.

Midi Quest can store an entire studio configuration for all of
your instruments in a single file. You can then simultaneously
open as many of these files as required - edit, copy between them,
whatever you need to do. Try doing that with any other
editor/librarian...

Bank Editing...

First, what every editor/librarian should have (but may not)...
Midi Quest will easily handle all of your bank editing tasks. Copy and
Paste, Swap, or Insert single or multiple patches within the same bank
or with other banks using menu commands or mouse drag and drop. Along
with a dozen other standard commands to rename, sort, shift patches, and
so on.

1-click audition automatically sends selected patches
to the MIDI device and auditions them so you can easily explore the
sounds without having to download the entire bank to the instrument.

Unlimited undo lets you easily recover from misadventures.

Midi Quest's unique and powerful bank editing
capabilities are highlighted in multi-timbral instruments with
parent/child linked editing and display. Hover the mouse over
any "parent" Multi/Combi/Performance and Midi Quest reports the "child"
patches that are used. Hover the mouse over any "child" Patch and Midi
Quest lists the "parents". Copy a "parent" Multi/Combi/Performance to
another bank and Midi Quest automatically copies all of the necessary
linked child patches as well. Rearrange "child" Patches and MQ
automatically updates the parents to ensure that links remain valid. No
hardware instrument is capable of this, no other editor/librarian does this -
only Midi Quest.

Patch and Parameter Editing...

Just like its bank editors, Midi Quest's parameter editors cover all of
the basics with the features you expect - multiple ways to edit each
parameter: grab and drag, direct numeric entry, incremental, mouse
wheel, and extended popup editing. Unlike most panel editors, Midi Quest
can retrieve and display all of the current values of all parameters. Of
course, Midi Quest performs edits in real time so the instrument
immediately reflects the changes made on screen. It also offers a range
of both manual and automatic auditioning options.

Unlimited undo lets you try variations and then select the best
alternative.

As always, it is the options that are unique to Midi Quest which are
some of the most interesting. Use your MIDI keyboard to set note
specific parameters. Use CC and NRPN messages to remote edit from your
control surface. Have an iPad or
iPhone? Use TouchOSC, Lemur, or any
other application supporting OSC to control Midi Quest's editors
(more information below). Record and playback edits as VST and
AUautomation. Finally, on Win 7 and Win 8 systems, Midi Quest supports
multi-touch editing.

Along with the editor's many features, you can take advantage of the
Block Copy/Swap options which allow you to select a logical group of
parameters such as an envelope, oscillator, effect, or LFO and copy/swap
them within the same patch, a different patch, or to disk as a template
for future use. Imagine creating a list of your favorite effect settings
to access whenever they're needed.

With more supported MIDI devices than any other editor, Midi Quest can
simultaneously open as many different editors for as many different MIDI
devices as you want - including multiple editors for the same
instrument.

Patch Generators - Inspiration in seconds...

Midi Quest is not just for the patch tweaker. Midi Quest has many
users who have never created a new patch by editing individual
parameters. Their secret is Midi Quest's five different patch
generators which take existing
sounds and combine them in different ways to create entire banks of new
sounds in a matter of seconds. This type of experimentation, without Midi
Quest, would require days but you'll get results in seconds. All you need
to do is use Midi Quest's 1-click audition to listen to the new sounds
and save the ones you like.

If you're looking for inspiration, a
variation on a sound you already like, or don't have time for a full
editing session, Midi Quest's Patch Generators are the answer for you.

Get in the Zone, the Patch Zone...

Looking for new inspiration? Looking for a sound but no time for
programming? Midi Quest has the answer for you. Sound Quest's latest
patch collection contains over 160,000 unique patches and is now
accessible to everyone with Midi Quest 11 using the unique Patch Zone window. This
context sensitive window tracks which instrument and type of SysEx you
are working with and automatically lists the available patches. Editing
a Korg Kronos Program? The Patch Zone will list over 30,000 available
programs. A single click will audition the program on the instrument or
drag and drop any program into a Bank, Collection, or Library for the future. Switch to a D-50 Patch editor and the Patch Zone will display 2,400
patches for your consideration. Most patches are even tagged for sorting
based on sound properties. This is another feature that is unique to
Midi Quest.

The best way to integrate Your MIDI hardware with Your Studio's DAW....

In May of 2000, Midi Quest redefined the way that editor/librarians are
used by releasing the first VST and MFX editor/librarian plug-ins.

Today, Midi Quest Pro supports more DAW plug-in formats than any other
editor with individual VST, AU,
MFX, and Studio Connections plug-ins
for all supported MIDI hardware. Each instrument plug-in operates
identically to the stand-alone version of Midi Quest and features
configurable Total Recall, CC/NRPN and VST/AU parameter
automation, in-host bank and patch SysEx storage,
and a parameter automation manager.

Midi Quest Pro is the only MIDI
editor plug-in to include vstxml files for Steinberg's Cubase,
Nuendo, and Cubasis software to give
you the best automation editing experience.

Your Instrument's Patch Names in Your DAW

Midi Quest has always been the leader in MIDI hardware and DAW
integration.

In 1997, Midi Quest was the first software to automatically create
Cakewalk compatible .ini files (in the days before SONAR, and even
before Pro Audio) so that an instrument's patches could be selected by name
instead of by number.

Control Midi Quest from an iPad. Control
Midi Quest from hardware. Control Midi Quest from...

Patch and bank editors in Midi Quest 11 and Midi Quest 11 Pro can be
controlled by any OSC enabled iPad or iPhone application such as
TouchOSC or Lemur. Midi Quest is the only editor/librarian to support
OSC.

Use the tools provided by TouchOSC or Lemur (or any other OSC
implemented control software/hardware) to create templates for
controlling just about any aspect of Midi Quest editing. Sound Quest has
already created over 250 templates that you can use as is or as a
starting point to create your own. SysEx or CC message, it doesn't
matter. You can even create a single template to simultaneously control
or edit multiple instruments. All templates can be customized by
TouchOSC and Lemur's development tools.

At Sound Quest, we wanted to make using your iPad or iPhone with Midi
Quest as easy as possible so we went one step further and created an OSC
template editor for Midi Quest Pro. To create your own custom TouchOSC or
Lemur
templates, simply copy controls from a Midi Quest editor and paste them
into the template editor, position them and export your new template for
either application. Your new template is now ready to be transferred to
the iPad or it can be further enhanced with their development tools.
Midi Quest 11 Pro's template editor even offers you something that those
for TouchOSC and Lemur don't - you can simultaneously open
and edit any number of templates and freely copy controls between them.

And if you "only" have
one or multiple hardware control surfaces,
any control surface, you can also configure Midi Quest for remote
editing using both CC and NRPN messages.

iPad or hardware? iPad or hardware? Now, its your choice.

Get Organized. Stay Organized...

Yes, we know it's boring to talk about organization and integration but
it's important.

Have two or more MIDI instruments? With Midi Quest's multi-instrument
environment, you can group SysEx from multiple instruments together in a
single file. Imagine being able to save all of the SysEx required by all
of your hardware for a song or gig in a single file so it's easy to find
and setup.
Midi Quest does it, others don't; and, with Midi Quest's multi-threaded
design, you can simultaneously transmit SysEx data to each instrument for
faster setup.

Have, or plan to have, a large patch collection? Other editors don't offer a Library to store hundreds or even thousands of patches.
Midi Quest does, and each patch can even be automatically or manually
tagged with its own unique properties allowing you to quickly and
effectively search for and find that particular sound when you need it
in the future.

Invest in the future...

For over 25 years, Sound Quest has pushed the boundaries of what MIDI
hardware editor/librarians can and should be able to do for you. The
result is software that is unequalled in capability and range of
supported MIDI instruments and devices. Sound Quest believes in a "no synth left behind policy." This
means that as new features are developed and added to Midi Quest, they
are incorporated into the oldest of editors. In Midi Quest 11, editors
for instruments that were released over 30 years ago have been updated
and enhanced to maximize Midi Quest's effectiveness.

Need more? Ask yourself, what does Sound Quest have in common with some
of the biggest names in the industry: Korg, Roland,
Yamaha, Alesis,
M-Audio, Akai, Line 6,
TC-Electronic, and TC-Helicon? The answer. All of
these companies have chosen to supply editors to their customers using
Midi Quest technology.

From basic to advanced, just compare and you'll see that Midi Quest
gives you unparalleled value. Questions? Please
send us an email or visit our new support forum and we'll be happy to answer them.